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EXPLAINER: Judge Ali frees more than $200 million in counterterrorism money FEMA had tied to the vote
On September 28, federal judge Amir Ali struck down a 20% holdback on the money Washington sends states and cities to prepare for attacks.
EDITORIAL: American taxpayers pay for a 2024 ad the White House only stripped of its logo
Between two football games, on September 26 and 27, a president walks alone down a hallway and promises the “final battle.”
COMMENTARY: Trump’s Iowa steel mill is good news due in 2030, not on November 3
On September 28, in the Oval Office, Donald Trump announced a US$15 billion steel mill that will not pour a single ton of steel…
QUICK TAKE: Hegseth vows a no-fail mission for the vote, and the White House wants to erase CISA’s
Pete Hegseth called the protection of American elections a “no-fail mission” in a memo made public on September 28, 2026.
COMMENTARY: Alito feared an eight-justice Court, and he creates one in Suncor without saying why
In 2023, Samuel Alito wrote that a Supreme Court short of justices would see its work “substantially disrupted and distorted.” On September 28, he…
OPINION: Kitimat doubles its LNG, a good move with a cargo that isn’t ours
A tank that does not exist yet found its future buyers on September 28, 2026, in Kitimat, on the north coast of British Columbia.
EDITORIAL: Trump wants Russian refineries spared, and Kyiv must hold its cards while the Kremlin refuses
Donald Trump told reporters on September 27 that he had asked Volodymyr Zelensky to “take it easy” on Russian refineries. We say no.
COMMENTARY: Moscow hits Kyivstar three times in September, and targets the phone that warns
Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest mobile operator, was hit three times in September: its engineering team’s office in Kyiv on the 11th, a building housing its…
OPINION: Wadephul was right to see Lavrov, who answered de-escalation with “to the end”
Johann Wadephul spent 22 minutes behind closed doors with Sergey Lavrov on September 26, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.